Because I’m too lazy to create a tutorial and the Arch Wiki is full of good articles here are some tips and tricks to install Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) on Arch Linux. Install plymouth-legacy (at the time time of writing, plymouth is broken) with an XBMC bootsplash for a pretty boot sequence. You will…

I like to do a lot of things using the console. But sometimes, when I need to do a lot of different rename and copy tasks, I open a new Finder window. The downside is that you have to browse to the that folder. Here’s a neat trick: Try executing this in the terminal:

I’m assuming you already created an entry in fstab that mounts your USB HDD on boot. If you haven’t, search around on the internet how to do it. For each mountpoint systemd creates a mountpoint.mount unit. Let’s find out how yours is called by executing:

Sometimes it can be very handy to get a notification from your system when the public ip changes, for example when hosting a site or ownCloud locally. Some domain registrars can help you with DDNS installs, but there are also cases where this is not possible and you have to do all DNS entries by…

In this tutorial we will explain how to setup a Debian/Ubuntu server as a mediaserver that automagically downloads the series and movies you like for free. This tutorial will show you how to setup the following programs: Transmission (Torrent client) Sickbeard (PVR for series) Couchpotato (PVR for movies) Plexmediaserver…

I made a bookmarklet that changes the font to Comic Sans on the current page: Comic Sansify! To use it, drag it to your bookmarksbar or click on it to test it on this page. Here’s the code including some explanation:…

I used to install cron-apt on all servers to get notified of any updates that needed to be installed. Then I stumbled on the package apticron. The great advantage over cron-apt is that it also sends you the part of the changelog that describes the need for the update. That way you can decide whether…